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The father of a 14-year-old Connecticut girl filed a missing persons report with police after his daughter left the house Saturday morning and didn't come home that night. The unidentified girl wasn't answering her cellphone, but police were able to track her down using her the phone's signal, finally locating her Sunday afternoon in a room at the Belleclaire Hotel on the Upper West Side. Inside the room, police found condoms, a vibrator, and an 18-year-old Belgian man named Anthony Freson, who swears the girl told him she was 18 when they "met" in a Yahoo chat room in April.
Fresson, who flew to New York for the rendezvous, was arrested on charges of kidnapping, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child, even though the girl told police she lied to him about her age. Her father, a teacher, tells the Post, "She thinks he's the most wonderful person. She's angry with me right now because I stopped it. I was so worried. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat. I was calling [her cellphone] every five minutes... I want him to go to jail. She's my only child. She did something stupid." Freson is being held on $2,000 bail following his arraignment in Manhattan criminal court.
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She did something stupid
unless they can prove that the kid stopped her from answering her phone, this should be the end of it.
where the fuck does an 18 year old get that money?
Well done on the bolding, John. I don't know what this girl looks like, so perhaps he should have suspected she was younger than she claimed...but if she really did tell him she was 18, she indeed did something stupid. Is he supposed to ID her?
She lied about her age and the Father thinks the 18 year old should go to jail?
I'm all for protecting our children from sickos - but a 2 year difference in age AND the girl lied?
C'mon...
"a 2 year difference in age AND the girl lied?"
Four year difference. She's 14.
And while an 18-year old Belgian might not know what the law is in the USA, it makes no difference legally if she lied about her age. Adults are responsible for not having sexual contact with minors.
So yes, to the other question above. He should have checked her ID.
But where do you draw the line? Guys have to start IDing every girl who looks to be under 30 before having sex with them? It seems a bit excessive.
Okay, she tells you she's 18 online ... should raise a red flag but I can let it slide. What I can't let slide is - when you meet her in person, you can't tell she was lying?
As for the Father - it sounds like he knew about this, but didn't take action until she disappeared. If that's the case he's a culpable as the belgian. Apparently he didn't get the memo that kids need to be protected from themselves on occasion.
Huh? I don't see anything in the story that suggests that the father knew about it before she disappeared.
I thought she was sixteen...
The kid's 18. He's just a kid himself. The age is arbitrary in this case. If it's a case that the girl lied, then he had no other way to know. It's a throw out using any common sense.
14 is the new 18.
Dude, that's a long way to fly for sex. Don't they have 14 year olds in Belgium that he could be nailing?
No. They have 80 year old ladies with 14 year old cats.
Here I though chat room with fulled with bots.
lol a/s/l?
Ugh, I hate questions like this. Clearly we want to discourage child abuse, but also age is clearly an organic, molding & drifting. 14 to 18 is a long way, but not a VERY long way. 4 very important years-- but enough to put a teenager in jail as a sex offender? I don't know about that. Consensual sex among minors-- made all the more difficult by the fact that most of America wants to pretend sex is filthy & thus a secret.
I concur.
Romeo was 16, Juliet 13, and the age of consent in NYS in 1900 was 14. And all the time, they say kids are getting maturer younger nowadays.
Check out his facebook pic
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/freson1?ref=search&sid=538216368.3030348389..1
Looks like Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale.
Anyway, he looks older than 18.
the devil is in the interwebs.
NYS criminal law takes into account the amount of years between the "adult" and minor and the incarceration periods are on a sliding scale according to that span.
Well luckily for him, he can just go back to Belgium after this is all over with and carry on with his life. They don't care about this sort of thing in Europe.
If she willing went to see him, and if he claims that she told him she was >= 18, then I foresee a jury having a hard time throwing a young man's life away.
Make no mistake, child molestation is a horrible crime, and offenders ought to be severely punished. However, the law must be fluid and evolving in order to dispense justice (and therefore able to distinguish between actual predators on dateline and genuinely infatuated persons--if the law cannot meet that simple test, then the law does not work).
This discussion makes me glad I came up in the swinging 60's when a sexually curious teen could get laid without people going to jail over it. Sheesh!
one of his facebook groups is "hang pedophiles by the balls". The irony.
The age of consent in Europe generally varies from 14 to 17 years old (except for Spain where it is 13). In Belgium, the age of consent is 16.
I don't know what this 14 year old girl looks like, but makeup could easily make her look years older than her chronological age. When my 16 year old neighbor sneaks out to go to the clubs, she wears makeup and clothes that easily make her look 25.
Could you post your name and address? The cops want to have a little talk with you.
17 is the age of consent in NY. Why are the ages different in various states? Seems weird.
when i was 14, i definitely passed for 18 (no make-up necessary) and my 20-yr old sister enjoyed taking me to the occasional college mixer and see who fell for the bait.
fortunately for me (and the guys, i suppose) i was too naive to maintain the illusion for long.
i blame the dad for not knowing where the daughter was.
she's your "only" child? so?....put a lo-jack on her.
So, the lesson here is to remove your mate's phone battery before the sweet love down by the fire?
dont accept any awards in switzerland, buddy
Thank god I don't have daughters....yet.
"She thinks he's the most wonderful person. She's angry with me right now because I stopped it."
Are you fucking kidding me? She's "angry" with daddy because he pulled her 14 year-old tramp ass out of a hotel room in New York City full of condoms and sex toys and an 18 year old Belgian and he's even countenancing what she thinks or feels? What kind of pussies are parents these days? My sisters would have been shipped off to a convent school in Canada without a word or a look.
talk about a long distance booty call!
The guy isn't Roman Polanski. She lied about her age and she volunteered to meet with him at a hotel room. Pretty much knowing that they are going to have sex. I don't think she lost her virginal to the Belgium dude.